Harrison's Character In The Novel 'Unstoppable' By Tim Green

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UNSTOPPABLE
The main character in the novel unstoppable is Harrison Major,’’ The book unstoppable was written by Tim Green. Harrison is 13 years of age. He was adopted by 3 family’s because people refused to keep for more than a month. Because he was rough and raw. But thing was for sure he loved football. The problem was he finally got a family that loves him but then he was in a regular season game and got hit by two people at the same time in the leg and bam crack his leg got a really bad break. So he was put in the hospital and they gave him some strong meds and knocked him out and while he was asleep they said the only way he could live was if they cut his leg off. But Harrison is loved by many people because his character traits such

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